"One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction."

-- Beryl Markham

#Stars Quotes #Men Quotes #Doors Quotes

“This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.”
“There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.”
“Probably a lack of concentration. I always hit them during practice. I just need to concentrate. Even though I should a lousy percentage, I beat a lot of teams from the line. You have to have mechanics. But see, what people don't know about my wrists is my wrists don't go all the way back. My wrists are crooked and don't go all the way back. I've been practicing and working on them. You can't do everything good.”
“It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.”

Source : Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.75, Basic Books
“The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.”
“We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.”

Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2001). “Summer Tree, The: Book One of the Fionavar Tapestry”, p.126, Penguin
“Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.”
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”

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